Tag Archives: California

home again.

2006.09.17 – 3:12 pm PDT

Well, I’m home now.  The week I was in California was very tiring.  It sucked that I had no internet access while there.  Luckilly I was able to check my email at a friend’s work.  The TSA apparently decided to take my xbox wireless recievers from my baggage, now I have two controllers with no recievers, and have to spend another $80 to get new ones.  LAME.  My laptop has a new scratch on it’s lid.  I got to eat one of my most favorite foods almost everyday, VIETNAMESE!  mmmm pho, and bun thom tit nuong.
More crap of course happened over the week, but at this point in time I don’t feel like getting into it.  I just really hate flying.  Also being rushed, and having little to no time to get things done within the timeframe I was in California.
I got to see some friends and old friends, which was great, and got caught up with them about life in general.
hmm what else… oh I really missed my dog, and my friends that I’ve made since moving to Sierra Vista.
So it’s good to be home again.
[tags]california, travel, home, [/tags]

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the painful truth.

2006.07.02 – 4:44 am PDT

“Doctor, it hurts when I do that.” Doctors and patients agree - doctors are lousy when it comes to recognizing, diagnosing and treating pain. The AMA developed this free Continuing Medical Education tool (requires Flash) to help docs learn and understand how to deal with pain - but other folks, folks who are now in pain or might someday be in pain, might find it quite interesting as well. All docs in California have to complete this seminar or a similar one by the end of 2006 to get relicensed; the hope is that this will help the docs and the patients who have to deal with pain on a daily basis.

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I’ve only met a few doctors who seem to understand pain. Will this likely help me? Doubtfully, only time will tell I suppose.

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lunch

2006.06.14 – 6:30 pm PDT

I had lunch today with my father, at a neat little vietnamese food restaurant in Santa Ana, near South Coast Plaza, named Saigon Cuisine. I had lunch there a few months ago, when I was last in California, and the owner recognized me from then. For lunch we has some very fresh, and tasty spring rolls, for an appetizer, followed by #53, charbroiled pork, shrimp, with rice noodles, and vegetables. The whole meal was very satisfying, and healthy. To drink we had Thai Iced Tea, and iced coffee with condensed milk, which gives a good buzz.

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waiting…

2006.06.14 – 12:31 pm PDT

so today went well from what i’ve absorbed so far. it was painful, uncomfortable, and that’s just from sitting, waiting to figure out what’s going on. i went before a judge, and things look like they’ll be moving ahead once more. i just need to make some seemingly difficult decisions about how to proceed next.

[tags]workers_compensation, california, judge[/tags]

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sushi dinner

2006.06.13 – 10:20 pm PDT

Had dinner at California Beach in Newport.
mmm, all you can eat sushi. good stuff.
Ichi, thanks for the good eats.

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2006.02.23 to 2006.02.25

2006.02.14 – 5:49 pm PST

ok i will be in cali again soon, as in next week.
i’ll be flying in next Thursday, and I’ll be leaving on Saturday.

Thursday I’m likely to be travel lagged as I was last time I had to hurry between planes, so Friday is the day to hangout. either way gimme a ring.

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Insanity! Who Elected this Schmuck????

2005.01.20 – 5:44 pm PST

From the EFF, and BoingBoing.

California INDUCE bill bans the Internet

By Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow: An extremist California Senator called Kevin Murray has introduced a Californian version of last year’s Federal INDUCE Act, a law that proposed to make the very Internet itself illegal, for it bans producing, selling, offering, descirbing or building a network that can be used to share files unless “reasonable care” is taken to ensure that the files shared won’t infringe upon copyright. This, of course, includes email, IM, Web-browsers, and every other tool for exchanging data on the Internet. Nice one, Kevin! Maybe once you’ve passed this one, you can introduce a bill to make Pi equal to 3 and then execute everyone who insists otherwise.

The tech threat comes in the form of SB 96, Murray’s own souped-up version of Hatch’s controversial Induce Act. The bill, introduced in the Senate last week, would make a criminal of anyone who sells or distributes software that allows users to transmit files over a network, if the seller/distributor fails to exercise “reasonable care in preventing use of the software to commit an unlawful act” such as piracy, computer trespass, or dissemination of child pornography.Goodbye innovation; hello regulation. “Reasonable care” could mean anything from the forced design and/or redesign of software to mandated filtering and digital rights management (DRM) — even the forced installation of spyware to monitor user behavior. Moreover, SB 96 would effectively overrule the Betamax protections that the Supreme Court has provided technology companies for more than 20 years. That kind of seismic shift would destabilize some of California’s most successful companies.

From the birth of the Xerox machine to the modern web server, every technology that enables people to copy or disseminate content has had the capacity to be used for some illegal activity. Under Murray’s logic, we should have stopped the manufacture and sale of VCRs, dual tape decks, postal services, carbon paper, and any other service or device that could potentially be used in a crime.

Link to EFF quickie on this, Link to Ed Felten’s reaction to becoming a wanted man (Thanks, Jason

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Calif. to Sue Diebold Over False Claims

2004.09.07 – 7:25 pm PDT

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California Attorney General Bill Lockyer said on Tuesday he would sue electronic voting machine maker Diebold Inc. (NYSE:DBD - news) on charges it defrauded the state with false claims about its products.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=738&e=1&u=/nm/20040907/tc_nm/tech_diebold_dc

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Kids Plus Rocks Equals 120,000 Angry Bees

2004.08.16 – 3:13 pm PDT


Mon Aug 16, 9:56 AM ET

  

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Kids throwing rocks stirred up more trouble than they bargained for when they dislodged a swarm of bees from an enormous hive built in the wall of a Southern California apartment building, authorities said on Friday.

   

An estimated 120,000 bees held residents of the apartment building and nearby homes hostage in Santa Ana, California after the children pelted their 500 pound (227 kg) hive with rocks on Thursday, Santa Ana Fire Captain Steve Horner said. Several people, including firefighters, news reporters and a TV cameraman, reported being stung and at least two people were taken to a hospital with multiple stings, Horner said. Firefighters cordoned off a four-block area to allow the bees to calm down and return to their hive. An exterminator later fogged the hive and vacuumed out 40,000 dead bees, then set a trap for returning worker bees, of which about 80,000 were captured, Horner said. The quarter-ton honeycomb, which may have accumulated inside the apartment wall for years, was so big it was threatening the structural integrity of the two-story building, Horner said.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=583&e=2&u=/nm/20040816/od_nm/odd_bees_dc

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Calif. Sets 2nd Straight Power Use Record

2004.07.20 – 10:38 pm PDT

FOLSOM, Calif. - California broke its day-old electricity record Tuesday and officials predicted the latest mark wouldn’t last more than a day or two as temperatures soared toward triple digits in northern California.

   

The California Independent System Operator (news - web sites) forecast there will be enough power to meet high demand the next two weeks, avoiding a repeat of power outages that rolled across the state three years ago. The highest demand, 44,330 megawatts, came at 4:26 p.m. — the same time as the record the day before, 44,042 megawatts, which eclipsed a mark set four years ago, the ISO said. “It’s almost a sure bet we’re going to top that Thursday,” said ISO spokeswoman Stephanie McCorkle. Since the energy crisis of 2001, more than 7,200 megawatts of additional power are being produced at new plants, McCorkle said. A megawatt is enough electricity to power 750 homes for a year. Rising temperatures across inland parts of the state have prompted the ISO to ask consumers to conserve energy.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=533&e=8&u=/ap/20040721/ap_on_re_us/brf_electricity_peak

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California man charged in government hacking

2004.07.19 – 2:40 pm PDT

Smart kids? HEHEH.
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A 20-year-old California man has been charged with hacking government computers, including two agencies within the Defense Department, and defacing government Web sites, the U.S. attorney’s office said Friday.

Robert Lyttle, of Pleasant Hill, Calif., was indicted on Thursday by a federal grand jury for allegedly hacking government computers in April 2002, the United States Attorney’s Office in Northern California said.

Lyttle is accused of unlawfully accessing computer systems of the Department of Defense’s Defense Logistic Information Service and Office of Health Affairs and NASA’s Ames Research Center.

The charges against Lyttle carry penalties that include prison time of up 10 years and fines of up to $250,000, the U.S. attorney’s office said.

Lyttle is scheduled to appear before a United States Magistrate Judge in Oakland, Calif., on Monday to be arraigned on the charges.

Lyttle could not be reached for comment.

The prosecution is being overseen by the Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property unit of the United States Attorney’s Office and is the result of an investigation by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Defense Criminal Investigative Service and NASA’s Office of Inspector General.

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